There are many ways you can improve your health TODAY! Small changes reinforced daily, can result in MASSIVE improvements in your physical and emotional health. I’ve outlined a few just to get you started. Please contact me if you’d like more information about this or about ways that I can help you further.

Breathing

It seems like breathing should hold a place of greater importance for us. We can’t live without it right? However, breathing is one of those things a lot of people just take for granted. Notice your quality of breathing right now. Is it soft and shallow, or strong and deep? Are you holding yourself in a way that allows you to breathe easily?

You can improve your breathing.

Here’s a few things it does for you.

Respiration is crucial to life because we inhale air to obtain oxygen and exhale to eliminate carbon dioxide. Oxygen equals energy!

Your lungs function to regulate fluid balance/water metabolism and in this way also influence skin health.

Chinese medicine explains how the emotion of grief/sadness affects the lungs. Notice when you’re feeling depressed or sad that your breathing is most likely slow and shallow. When you are feeling this way, you can concentrate on improving your breathing and notice how you may feel a little better, instantly.

Using breathing exercises in your morning ritual (don’t have one? Just start with this!) is a great way to start the day by generating energy and emotional wellbeing.

Do you have 30 seconds now? Seat yourself upright in a comfortable position. Relax. Take a deep breath in through you nose, fill your lungs, and let it out.Simply breathe. There is no need to force your breath or hold it for any time. Repeat 3 times.

If you have another minute, close your eyes and this time concentrate on any part of your body involved in your breathing. It could be your nostrils, feeling the air as it passes. Or your chest as it rises, expands and contracts. Perhaps you’d prefer to count as your breathe in to fill your lungs, and count as you exhale to empty. Keep this concentration focused as you breathe. Become aware if your attention wanders and return to your attention to your breathing. Notice how you feel calmer and possibly re-energised following this simple, one-minute exercise.

There are many forms of breathing exercises but you can simply focus and breathe to improve your wellbeing at any time of the day, wherever you are.